Chapter 11 Naoko Anfang (1943-1993) was a woman far away from the hustle and bustle.

Naoko Anfang (1943-1993) was a woman far away from the hustle and bustle. To say something disrespectful, I often think, did she suffer from depression that was afraid of seeing people during her lifetime?She was indifferent all her life, rarely seeing people, and even refused to travel, but locked herself tightly at home alone. No, it was tightly locked in a forest deep in her heart. Naoko Anfang said that in my heart, there is a small place that I want to call "fairy tale forest", and thinking about it all day long has become my obsession.That forest is pitch black, and there is always a wind blowing through it.However, like moonlight, there is often a faint light coming in, and the things inside can be seen vaguely.

It was a ghostly and dreamy place, but for Anfang Naoko, it was not scary at all, because there lived beautiful flower demons, dryads, white parrots and silver peacocks.Naoko Anfang, who has been a literary girl since she was a child, will stay in it all day long. Occasionally, she will lead out a flower demon or tree spirit from inside, so we read fairy tales that are poignant, ethereal, weird and tender . However, although Naoko Anfang has written so many fairy tales, she always doesn't like to say that what she writes is a fairy tale, she likes to say that what she writes is a fantasy novel.

She said that the reason why I like writing fantasy novels is because I like the subtly changing rainbow-like colors between the realms of fantasy and reality.As a child, I was fascinated by the state of waking and falling asleep, and I crawled into bed thinking that I must remember the moment of falling asleep tonight.However, after waking up, I couldn't remember that moment.Because of this, I am looking forward to the time of the boundary line.The realm of fantasy and reality also has a similar charm to this. Describing that borderline always fascinates me. Although Naoko Anfang is far away from the hustle and bustle, she has many works.

Since she published the famous work "Pepper Doll" in 1969 and won the Newcomer Award of the Japan Children's Literature Association, she has left us "The Enchanted Tongue" and "The Hat of Lilac Avenue" for us. Shop”, “Tianlu”, “The Story of Dongji and the Bear”, “Mountain Fairy Tale: Roller Skates of the Wind”, “The Field of Setaria——The Story of the Tofu Shopkeeper” and other works one after another.Most of these works are exquisite short stories, which are very popular in Japan.Critics called her works like "flowers blooming silently in a corner of the yard".Indeed, they are dreamlike and extremely exquisite, like empty and meaningful short songs.I really admire Naoko Anfang, she can always start from the perspective of a gentle woman, integrate a touch of sadness into her sweet and weird words, and write one by one that is so simple and almost transparent but makes people feel the pain and sorrow of life. poetic story.

Not only do we like this writer who died young, but the Japanese also like her very much. Recently, a Japanese publishing house was invited by readers who loved her to publish a thick collection of seven works by Naoko Anfang, which included Naoko Anfang All works and her essays.As soon as I saw this news on the Japanese Amazon website, I immediately spent more than 1,300 yuan to mail-order this set of books from Japan. Not for anything else, just because I like Naoko Anfang so much.